108 HISTORY OP BRITISH CRUSTACEA. 



the peduncle of the inner antennae is much shorter ; the 

 lateral spines of the carapace are scarcely marked, and there 

 is no sternal spine between the base of the second pair of 

 legs. Nearly an inch long. 



Salcombe Bay, Devonshire (Alder) . First ascertained to 

 be British, and described in Professor Bell's work (p. 259). 

 Mr. W. Thompson got two at Weymouth, in June 1853; 

 one of these was in spawn : the eggs were of a rich brown. 

 The Rev. Alfred Norman obtained it at Falmouth. 



Crangon spinosus, Leach. Spray Shrimp. — Second pair 

 of leg* much shorter than the third pair. Carapace armed 

 with five rows of teeth ; abdomen nearly smooth ; the third 

 and fourth segments slightly keeled; the fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh channelled. 



Plymouth Sound (Prideaux) ; Falmouth (Cranch) ; Wey- 

 mouth (W. Thompson, who observes that its eggs are of a 

 dirty- white, tinged with green) ; Moray Firth (Gordon) ; 

 Shetland (Mr. Barlee dredged it off the Haaf in 1851) ; 

 off Oban (Rev. Alfred Norman). 



Mr. Gosse* describes a specimen when alive as being 

 drab or pale wood-brown, with a defined band of opaque 

 white across the fourth segment, a much broader one across 

 * Ann. and Mag. 1853, p. 384. 



